
Thoroughbred
racehorse
and champion sire. As a racehorse he was best known as the disqualified "winner" of the 2000 Guineas in 1980.
Nureyev was sired by Northern Dancer
out of the mare Special, making him a half brother of to several winners including Fairy Bridge, the dam of Sadler's Wells
. He was bought in 1978 at the Keeneland yearling sale
by Stavros Niarchos
for US$1.3 million and raced in France
and the United Kingdom
. Niarchos named the colt in honor of the famous ballet
dancer, Rudolf Nureyev
.
Trained by Francois Boutin
, in November 1979 Nureyev made his two-year-old racing debut in France.
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. Men of bright fancies may in this respect be compared to those angels whom the scripture represents as covering their eyes with their wings.
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
The true function of logic,... as applied to matters of experience,... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
There is no life I knowthat compares to pure imaginationLiving there you'll be freeif you truly wish to be
Impossibility is only the figment of an insufficient imagination.